“That is a bit of a drive doctor. I can do it, but we are talking several hours of overhead” “It should only be for a few weeks. And it would make the gods ecstatic “ I meet Nancy a few days later, and start helping her get home after the dialysis sessions.
SACRAMENTO » NANCY January I hate dialysistruly and utterly. Over the two hours of a dialysis session I go from feeling one-hundred-percent (for my age) down to having no energy at all. I am lucky even: others do twice as long a session as me. I don’t know how someone like Mark seems so unaffected after four hours… it is almost like he gets stronger from the treatment. I had a liver transplant last summer, but my kidneys never came back. They said they should: the transplant went well, and I recovered from surgery in a couple months. But the old kidneys don’t seem to like the new liver… why can’t they just get along? Why didn’t the doctors add a kidney at the same time they swapped in the new liver? Now I have to wait again. And go through surgery again. And recover again. I can only hope other senators don’t notice my second absence. I come to dialysis as late as possible in my afternoon session, so I can stay in the office or on the senate floor as long as possible. I know I have hurried a lot of work and bills through as 3pm approached, but I hope it is just a good kick in the pants to keep things moving. People just think I am very impatient, which is true… but now more than ever. - 32 -
